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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Jeff Fenster: Founder and CEO of everbowl | #ThePlaybook 172

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Fenster, Founder and CEO of everbowl, shares his perspective on the most important lessons for business leaders to learn and internalize, no matter whether they are “born” entrepreneurs or not. Jeff discusses his entrepreneurial beginnings as a teenage sales rep earning $60,000 to founding his current venture, everbowl, and his drive to continue scaling and growing the business. Fenster and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, converse about a variety of topics including whether entrepreneurs are born or made, how mentoring relationships can promote personal and professional growth, as well as not letting your ego can get in the way of those relationships. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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On this episode of the Playbook I have Jeff Fenster, my first mentoring client,

0:06.0

he was five years old when I started mentoring.

0:08.0

Now he's the founder and CEO of Ever Bowl.

0:11.0

He has multi millions of dollars and 29 locations already. You're

0:16.4

going to learn so much but we're going to start with how he made $60,000

0:20.7

while he was still in high school. This man is destined for success. He's going to share how.

0:26.0

Join me for all of this and more on the playbook.

0:29.0

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs

0:36.8

to talk about their personal and professional Playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.

0:45.0

I'm your host and CEO of Sports One Marketing, David Melzer.

0:50.0

This day Melter with Audopredors of the Playbook and I have one of the first people I've ever mentored and I can't tell you I feel like a proud dad because Jeff Fenster is the founder, CEO of Ever Bowl has a tremendous amount of solutions underneath that, utilizing

1:05.8

the vertebrae approach that I taught him.

1:07.6

But Jeff is an extraordinary entrepreneur since the time he was in high school.

1:12.4

And I have mentored him probably since he's been five years old and I first

1:16.4

saw him pitch in elementary school but Jeff welcome to the playbook.

1:20.5

Thank you so much Dave.

1:21.5

All right. This is so cool because I didn awesome to be here with you.

1:23.0

This is so cool because I didn't have to do any research and I got so many different questions

1:26.8

and I want people to know how a true entrepreneur is born not made.

1:32.1

When you're born an entrepreneur like you and I, people can mold us, but there's an innate

1:37.2

being and a desire to do things. So I'm going to start in high school with your first job when you almost got thrown out of high school.

1:45.4

You're a really good student like me only because we could do that in like three seconds, but you

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